142 EVENING-PRIMROSE FAMILY. 



^ 2. Parts of the flower in fours, or fives in No. 8. 

 , Ovary und dry nut-Uke fruil with a single (mule or seed in each cell. 

 2. GAURA. Herbs with alternate sessile leaves, and small or smallish flowers in 

 racemes or spikes Calvx with slender tube much prolonged beyond the 

 4-celled ovarv. Petals < on claws, mostly turned toward the upper side of 

 the flower. 'Stamens 8, these and the long style turned town. A little scale 

 before each filament. Fruit small, 4-angled or ribbed, 1 - 4-seeded. 

 » » Ovary and fruil with many ovules and seeds in each of the cells. 

 4- Herbs: fruit a chiefly i-celled and i-vahed dry pud. 

 *+ ** Seeds furtfished with a coma or tuft of long and soft hairs at one end, by tvhich 



they are widely dispersed by the wind. 

 a. EPILOBIUM. Calyx with tube scarcely at all extended beyond the linear 



ovarv. Petals 4." Stamens 8. 

 4. ZAUSfcHNERlA. Calyx extended much beyond the linear ovary mto a fun- 

 nel-shaped tube, with" an abruptly inflated base where it joins the ovary, and 

 with 4 lobes as long as the 4 oblong-oboordate petals, both of bright scarlet 

 color. Stamens 8 and, as wellas the long style, projecting. 

 ++ ++ Seeds naked, i. e. without a downy tuft. 

 = Flowers regular and symmetrical: calyx-tuhe extended more or less beyond the 



ovary, the lobes mostly reflexed: petals 4. 

 6. CLARKIA. Calyx-tube continued beyond the ovary into a short funnel-form 

 cup. Petals broad, wedge-shaped or rhombic, sometimes 3-lobed, raised on 

 a slender claw. Stamens 8, with slender filaments, the alternate ones short- 

 er : anthers curved or coiled after opening, those of the short stamens much 

 smaller, or deformed and sterile. Stigmas 4, oval or oblong. Pod linear 

 and tapering upwards, 4-sided. Flowers never yellow. 



6. EUC H A RIDIUM. Calyx-tube much prolonged and slender beyond the ovary. 



Petals wedge-shaped and 3-lobed at summit, tapering into a short claw. 

 Stamens only 4, on slender filaments. Stigmas 2 or 4. Pod obloag-linear. 

 Seeds slightly wing-margined. Flowers never yellow. 



7. (ENO THERA. Calyx-tube either much or little prolonged beyond the ovary. 



Petals usually obovate or obcordate, with hardly any claw. Stamens 8. 



Flowers yellow, purple- or white. 

 = = Flowers regular and symmetrical, but of en without petals : the calyx-tube not 

 in the least extended beyond the broad summit of the ovary, on which the 

 green lubes mostly persist : style usually short : stigma capitate. 



8. JUSSljEA. Stamens twice as many as the lobes of the calyx, petals, and cells 



of the pod: i. e. 8 or 10, rarely 12. 



9. LUU WIGIA. S'.amens as many as the lobes of the calyx and cells of the pod, 



almost always 4. Petals 4, often small, or none. 



^ = = Flowers irregular and unsymmetHcal : calyx-tube not extended. 



10. L01'EZI.\. I'Mowers small. . Calyx with 4 linear purplish lobes. Petals with 



claws, 4, turned towards the upper side of the flower, the two uppermost nar- 

 rower and with a callous gland on the summit of the claw, and what seems 

 to be a fifth small one (but is a sterile stamen transformed into a petal) stands 

 before the lower lobe of the calyx. Fertile stamen only one with an oblong 

 anther. Style slender: stigma entire. Pod globular. 



■*- .*- Shn^s : fruit a 4-celled berry. 



11. FUCHSIA. Flowers showy; the tube of the highly colored calyx extended 



much beyond the ovary, bell-shaped, funnel-shaped, or tubular," the 4 lobes 

 spreading. Petals 4. "Stamens 8. Style long and thread-shaped: stigma 

 club-shaped or capitate. 



1. CIRCaJA, ENCHANTER'S NIGHTSHADE. {Named from Circe, 



the enchantress, it is not obvious why ; the plants are insignificant and 



inert, natives of damp woods, flowering in summer. ) 2/ 



C. Luteti^na, tlie common species, is l°-2° high, branching, with ovate 



and slightly toothed leaves, no bracts under the pedicels, the rounded little 



fruit 2-ct'llcd and beset with bristly hairs. 



C. alplua, common only N. or in mountainous regions, smooth and deli- 

 cate, 3' - 6' high, with thin and heart-shaped coarsely toothed leaves, minute 

 bracts, and obovate or club-shaped fruit I-celled and soft-hairy. 



